About the show: The
Seattle-based modern dance company Dead Bird Movement brings their
latest show to Los Angeles. The performance, "Entry by Entrance",
ranges from surreal, imagistic, movement vignettes to frenetic,
physical comedy chaos.

"Entry by Entrance" begins with a series
of captivating movement solos by Jessie Smith. Her technical lines
twist and contort in a gruesomely beautiful struggle. Smith's solitary
dance builds into a playground of experimental performance as farcical
gags get added to the mix. When actors Ryan Mitchell and Mandie
O'Connell join the action, athletic partnering meets a slap in the
face, strategically placed banana peels, a chase scene with a slimy
fish, and a multitude of drinks spat in the face. "Entry by Entrance"
also features original music by Alex Guy of the Degenerate Art
Ensemble.

About Dead Bird Movement:Jessie Smith's Dead
Bird Movement is a Seattle-based modern dance company. Dead Bird pulls
from a gifted group of outsider artists on a project-to-project basis
to create multi-disciplinary works. Since being founded in 2006, Dead
Bird Movement has quickly earned acclaim as an ambitious, exciting,
young company. Dead Bird's aesthetic is both exhilarating and
disturbing. Smith's choreography challenges physical strength and
endurance in a way that accentuates the nuances of the body. Her wild,
bruising movement embodies an urgent necessity that couples punkish
physicality with sharp line and then snarls the mixture. Dead Bird
Movement's pieces are intelligent and infused with the honesty of
struggle.